Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-17-Speech-2-252"
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The European Parliament decided to support the position of the Commission and the Council on Slovakia’s wish to adopt the single currency on 1 January 2009, although it does have some concerns about discrepancies between the convergence reports of the Commission and the ECB as regards the sustainability of inflation.
It is also interesting that the report expresses concern about what it considers to be ‘low support for the euro among Slovak citizens’. Furthermore, instead of trying to address the reasons for this low support, it calls on the authorities of Slovakia to step up the public information campaign aimed at explaining ‘the benefits of the single currency’, whilst nevertheless still exhorting them to take all necessary steps in order to minimise price increases during the changeover period.
Once again, it is a shame that we cannot know exactly what the majority of Slovak citizens think about all that is happening, particularly their joining the euro. Hence our abstention.
The consequences in Portugal are well known and prompt us to oppose this in a clear-cut fashion."@en1
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